Overview
This version of the appliance addresses three specific issues:
- Volume attachments progressively getting slower when the number of volumes in the vSphere environment increases. Due to a locking issue in the VMFS implementation on vSphere, the performance of the volume attach operation through RightScale was impacted when the overall number of volumes managed by RCA-V increased. While RightScale does not have much control over the timing of VMware's release for the VMFS issue, we have worked around the issue by placing each volume created/managed by RightScale under its own sub-folder. This circumvents the locking issue we have encountered on vSphere. This fix requires an upgrade to the vscale_1.2_20150303_16 package. See instructions below.
- Boot time performance improvement: Servers launched on vSphere will be polled more aggressively (instead of a 2 minute poll interval) so a
powered-on
VM gets detected quickly allowing the subsequent booting steps to start quicker than it normally would. This enhancement will result in boot time reduction of up to 90 seconds. - When sharing a VLAN across two datacenters, RCA-V only allowed a network to be configured for one of the datacenters. This issue has been resolved such that the same network that is shared across two datacenters can now be configured under both datacenters using VM Networks->Add Network for each datacenter. In order to take advantage of this fix, you must upgrade to the vscale-admin_1.2_20150305_16 package. Upgrade instructions for the admin package are provided below.
Upgrade Instructions
To upgrade the vscale-admin
package, please follow the steps outlined below:
- Login to RCA-V Admin UI
- Click on RightScale Platform in the left column.
- Find the Admin Interface card and click on Upgrade button.
- Look for the package labeled
vscale-admin_1.2_20150305_16
. - Download and Activate that package.
- Refresh your browser window.
To upgrade the vscale
package, please follow the steps outlined below:
- Login to RCA-V Admin UI
- Click on vCenter in the left column.
- Find the Cloud Appliance card and click on Upgrade button.
- Look for the package labeled
vscale_1.2_20150303_16
. - Download and Activate that package.
- Refresh your browser window.